All-rounder Goode appeared at the national schools athletics finals, played county tennis and was part of the Ipswich Town football academy before joining Saracens.

[12][13][14] He spent a season on loan to Japanese side NEC Green Rockets while Saracens competed in the 2020–21 RFU Championship.

[16] In 2008 Goode was a member of the England under-20 team that won the grand slam[17] and reached the final of the 2008 IRB Junior World Championship.

[20] Goode was part of the squad selected for the 2012 Autumn internationals, because of injuries to Ben Foden he started all four of the games at full back.

[21] Goode also featured in the 2013 Six Nations Championship, playing all five games including the Grand Slam decider at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.